"And yet the majority of the letters - even from those whose beliefs are different from ours - also tell us that they like the end product of what we do and belief: a close-knit, love-filled family bustling with well-behaved, respectful, fun-loving, adventurous, and smart children who cherish their parents and siblings and how courtesy and kindness to those they meet." Chapter 1, Page 4

"A historic house built by one of the biggest advocates of birth control was about to be occupied, many years later, by one of America's biggest families with a personal conviction against birth control." Chapter 5, Page 56

"Inevitably whenever I left the house during the day to go back to the hospital, a little one cried, seeing me go. I longed for the day our whole family could be together again under one roof." Chapter 6, page 66

"I (Michelle) certainly wouldn't have chosen to experience the agony...